Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the Carlott Psychotherapy Podcast.

This is the second episode in our Borderline Personality Disorder series,

where we're exploring the range of evidence-based treatments for BPD

to help clinicians better understand the interventions available.

I'm your host, Abigail Rossel,

and today I'm joined by the one and only Dr. Frank Yomans to discuss

transference-focused psychotherapy, an often lesser-known yet highly effective treatment for

borderline personality disorder. Dr. Yomans is one of the developers of TFP and has played a central

role in expanding its clinical use through the co-authorship of treatment manuals, clinician

training, and supervision. He's a clinical professor of psychiatry at Welle Cornell Medical

College, director of training at the Personality Disorders Institute at Welle Cornell, and director

of the Personality Studies Institute in Manhattan, amongst many other roles. He's also the president

of the International Society of Transference

Focus Psychotherapy. Dr. Yomans has devoted his career to advancing evidence-based psychodynamic psychotherapies

for personality disorders, and so it truly is an honor to have him here with us today to discuss this

very important work. So welcome, Dr. Yelmans. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. And I do want to thank

people for listening because, along with everything else, I'm a big advocate for people who

suffer from BPD, and there just aren't enough clinicians. So anybody's interested in helping

this patient population is doing a great service. So I'd like to start off by

just speaking a little bit about how Transference-focused psychotherapists conceptualize of

personality, personality disorders, and how that understanding sets the stage for the model of

transference-focused psychotherapy. That's a good place to start because if our goal is to help people with

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